CELL PORTRAITS: This is an on-going series of hand-drawn translations of microscopic cross-sections of select plants, human body parts, and animals. The drawings are both a study and meditation on the internal visual languages of these unique yet related cellular structures. In the resizing, translating, and merging of the imagery, a connectedness is discovered and something other is created: a hybrid, a portal, a larger-than-life microscopic portrait, and a site for contemplation.